Nope, Erlang's floats are still IEEE754 floats: 1> 1.0e21 + 1 == 1.0e21. tru... | Hacker News

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masklinn on Oct 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: 0.30000000000000004

Nope, Erlang's floats are still IEEE754 floats:

    1> 1.0e21 + 1 == 1.0e21.
    true

silentbicycle on Oct 29, 2010 [–]

Right. It has arbitrary-precision ints, but lossy floats.

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